Nationalisms and The International Conjuncture: The Case Of Cyprus 1945 – 1964

This book utilized a qualitative research design composed of a comparative historical analysis examining the Greek and Turkish nationalisms in Cyprus, with relevance to the international conjuncture.

The book problematizes the influences of international conditions on the politics of nationalism in Cyprus. Ituates the theoretical approaches accounting for nationalism as a socio-political phenomenon, and indicates that these approaches, despite their successes in illustrating the political and sociological aspects of nationalism, tend to neglect the international conjunc¬ture as another factor shaping politics of nationalism.

A noticea-bleamount of Cypriot scholars concerned on the nationalisms in Cyprus have conceptualized Greek and Turkish nationalisms in Cyprus as a socio-political development, however, they generally had the tendency to focus primarily on the domestic conditions generating the nationalisms and to overlook the roles played by the international developments (for instance Soviet de-Stalinization, the emergence of NAM, ete). The analyzed period of time was the late-Colonial era and the early independence era (1945-1964).

The book concluded that, the developments in the international politics had signifıcant effects in shaping the nationalism politics of the two communities in Cyprus.